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Old   March 6, 2006, 15:24
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tod
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Hi,

can I assume convergence if the continuity residual does not reach 10^-3 but reaches about 10^-2 and keeps constant for more than 1000 iterations, and all other residuals are below the convergence criterion?

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Old   March 6, 2006, 22:32
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vijay
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Hi,

Check the mass balance in Reports > Fluxes
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Old   March 7, 2006, 14:27
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It depends in your case as allways, but not reachen the "magical" threshold of 1e-3 is a bad simptom.

Create another variables of your flow in your model and check the mass-weighted average of some quantity, like velocity magnitud at any outlet, or create a point and check in it the vertex average of the turbulence intensity(for example): if these parameters are constant while iterating, you have reached the convergence.
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Old   March 12, 2006, 07:30
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take 3ddp solver you will reach convergence criterion!!
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